The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-06-06
THE o'BRIEN PARADE.
Not Over 10000 Persons In Line
o'BrIen Does Not Attend the
Demonstration.

New YORK, June 4.-Arrangements for
the grand parade to be participated in by
$4,000 men were made for tonight, to do hon
or to Mr.. O'Brlen, but less than a fifth of
that number paraded Messrs. O'Brien and
Kilbride were to have followed with the
committee of arrangements in carriage,
but they did not. O'Brien was at the Hoff-
man House and he did not appear either in
the parade or on the reviewing stand He
said he would not leave the hotel. He un-
derstood that the demonstration was Labor
and Henry George hurrah, and as his mis-
sion had nothing TO do with such matters, he
should not participate.
1t is understood also that he objected to
the presence of John McMackln, who was to
preside at the speakers stand. McMackin
presided at meeting in C0opers Union
Tuesday night, at (which P. j. lyman, "mys-
terious No. /, spoke, and he applauded his
extreme remarks.
O'Brien, who advocates peaceful measures
not afford to place himself in position to
be criticized. He did not care to have it
flashed across the ocean that he, a member
miters
1t was then thought o'Brien could be got
the stand, but the Central Labor Union and
United Labor party would not agree, thus
the procession moved without him. There
was at the outside 10000 men in line. Fully
10000 gathered in the vicinity of the stand in
Union Square, Among these were Henry
voorhees,, Jno. McMackin, Dennis Kelby.
ex-Judge Gideon I. Tucker and other local
labor leaders.
John McMackin was the first speaker.
After paying glowing tribute to 0'Brien,
he hesitated and closed as follows:
'.OQe whom QXnpctpd fnniOht hoe pot
seen fit to show himself. Perhaps when
O'Brien gets through being dined and wined
by Neely and Donoghue and the rest, he
may find time to meet those who are here to
meet him. He may find that the Irish are
not to be led by crowd of politicians
Since the remarkable incident of SATURDAY.
evening O'Brien has received numerous tele-
grams and communications from different
places and persons, in all of which his course
in regard to the Saturday night demonsta-
tion were passed. O'Brien said tonight: II
am not surprised that gentlemen not of the
Irish race should not be able to understand
the cruel difficulties by which our case is
surrounded, but have not the smallest ap-
prehenslon that the Irish Nationalists will
misunderstood my action. They know how
many tenant enemies are watching every
word OF act Of ours in order to torture them
into weapons against Gladstone and Parnell
am satisfied they will feel also that have
acted under painful and solemn sense of
III,
and from the conviction that any other course
would have brought the utter destruction of
our movement at the moment when the opin-
ions of millions Of English people is trem-
mosf U,lng In .ne Daianee, and when the
thrown into the balance against us.
was surprised to see it was stated from the
platform at Union Square thatI had scratched
out resolution referring to DR.. McGlynn
Asa matter OF fact no such resolution was
fnd fn mn fn Al,.Af1
tanned no illusions direct or otherwise to
him. The resolution read from the stand
was never in any manner mentioned to me-
l md 1t difficult to deal seriously with the
suggestion that could be guilty of any in
suit to labor: My life has been one Of as
hard toll and as anious care as think falls
under the lot of most men. think | can
claim that most of its energies have been
spent In the service Of the poor and workers
AS to the insulting suggestion that / was
captured apt. by T.snmmany or other politicians
l can only say that such things had not the
rIemotest influence on my action. should
have resisted any attempt and compromise
OF our cause in the interest of any other po-
lltlcal section in America at least as warmly
as felt obliged to resist the attempt to lden-
tlfy us with a particular organization by
which the labor parade was conducted.
NEW YORK, June 5.-Rev. DIR. McGlynn
was the principal speaker at the anti-poverty
meeting in the Academy of Music this even
ing. Being called on for an expression in
regard. to O'Brien's action last night
he said O'Brien had made mistake
He continued: "O'Brien is a landlord at
heart himself. 1t is only a question of a
small percentage between O'Brien and
Lansdowne." John McMackin said he had
only contempt for men who would goad
men to acts of violence. Corruption must
be wiped out, and the party of United Labor
would do it.
AT meeting of the Fifth Ward branch of
the Irish National League, ex-senator
Grady made an address in which he strongly
commended O'Brien for refusing to attend
the meeting last night.